MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1 — “Ghetto Supastar”)

Released on this day in 1998…

Pras gave us his debut solo album…

Ghetto Supastar.

Playing that title track the other day…

got both my wife AND my son singing along!

(Music Cut #2 — “Ghetto Supastar”)

The song features Mýa and Ol’ Dirty Bastard…

and went on to become one of the biggest hits of 1998.

But that melody…

actually came from a very, very different place.

(Music Cut #3 — Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton, “Islands in the Stream”)

Yep! Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton!

Their 1983 hit “Islands in the Stream”…

provided the melody behind “Ghetto Supastar.”

Country music meets hip-hop!

(Music Cut #4 — “Ghetto Supastar”)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Some got hopes and dreams, we got ways and means
The supreme dream team always up with the schemes” – Pras “Ghetto Supastar”

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